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Check out the 7/14/2010 Solid Verbal Podcast, "Smart Football," hosted by Dan Rubenstein and Ty Hildenbrandt. It was a lot of fun and I really appreciate the invite to do the Solid Verbal.
Check out the 7/14/2010 Solid Verbal Podcast, "Smart Football," hosted by Dan Rubenstein and Ty Hildenbrandt. It was a lot of fun and I really appreciate the invite to do the Solid Verbal.
Football Scouting Methods, by Steve Belichick. For a long time, this widely revered tome by Steve Belichick, Bill's dad, was out of print — and so I never read it. But I recently realized that it had been re-released and thus the price came down from its prior astronomical levels to the very affordable $10. One of the Amazon reviewers helpfully includes the table of contents for curious readers:
1. A case for specialization in scouting
2. Preparations for scouting
3. What is expected of the scout
4. Worksheet forms and terminology
5. How to recognize the defense
6. Scouting the defense
7. Defensive analysis
8. Scouting the offense
9. Offensive analysis
10. The final report
11. Self-scouting and post game analysis
12. Tip offs
Surreptitiously filming your opponents red zone plays is, to my knowledge, not covered, but hopefully the wisdom herein will trickle into my writing here on the site.
– More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, by Sebastian Mallaby. First things first: Mallaby, who is a former writer for the Economist and whose prior book, The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations (about Jim Wolfensohn, the former World Bank president), was excellent, has written a full-throated defense of hedge funds and hedge fund managers — a rather unique topic in today's climate. But whatever your views on this "new elite," Mallaby's book is extremely informative and entertaining, as, unsurprisingly, the history of hedge funds is filled with quixotic characters. I thoroughly enjoyed this, even if, at the end, while the financial world was crumbling as a result of the risk taking of many, Mallaby's book becomes something of a thriller where we wait to see if various hedge funds will blow up or survive. The fact that he can overcome such oddities is a testament to Mallaby's formidable writing skills. For a sample chapter, check out this piece from the Atlantic, covering George Soros's successful effort to break the British pound.
– Hitch-22: A Memoir, by Christopher Hitchens. I have a very soft spot for Hitch, as his rhetorical prowess is such that he could say basically anything and, because it sounds so good and is said so well, you fall in for it, even if just a bit. (And sometimes you wonder if he doesn't set himself up that way on purpose.) But when he's on your side, there are few better or more forceful advocates. Hitch-22: A Memoir — which is not a memoir at all, but is instead just a roughly chronological series of stories Mr. Hitchens has chosen to tell about himself and his famous friends — is fun, pungent, and elegantly written; a perfect beach read for the Fourth of July, when I read it. It doesn't do much to explain the man (or maybe it does?), but Hitchens has always been less about bracing complexity for complexity's sake than acknowledging it (which alone differentiates him from many commentators), then choosing a side (thus differentiating him from the rest), and asserting the moral high ground until you concede or his position is no longer remotely tenable. A sample chapter on his friendship with Martin Amis is available from Vanity Fair.
– American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic, by Joseph Ellis. Ellis is maybe my favorite storyteller/historian on American History (there are historians and storytellers, and for some reason with American History few successfully manage both roles). Ellis charts early American history — post revolutionary war, in particular — through the men that made it and it made famous, though without deifying them in the process. A great text to help fill in the gaps and to give some much needed perspective on a now much discussed time.
Brian Burke opines on NFL salaries:
Personally, I think they're all overpaid, rookies and veterans. If you ask most football players if they would still play football for $80,000 per year instead of $800,000 or $8 million, they'd say yes. It's almost certainly a better proposition than whatever else they'd be able to do in the labor market. If Sam Bradford had the choice between playing in the NFL for $80k/yr or looking for an entry level job in Oklahoma City, what do you think he'd do? Every dollar above $80k is icing on the cake. Technically, it could be considered economic rent.
In economic terms, rent is a misnomer. It does not refer to money you pay a landlord for your apartment. It refers to the money above the minimum amount required to induce the employment of a resource. There is always rent claimed by both sides of all voluntary transactions, otherwise people wouldn't agree to the transaction in the first place. . . .
It seems to me almost all of the economic rent in professional sports goes to the players. It's hard to imagine any other multi-billion dollar company paying more than 60% of its revenue to a few hundred employees. It's not that the salaries are high in absolute terms, it's that the athletes should gladly play for far less.
I tend to agree… or do I? I am conflicted. It is a plausible account, but there is a lot of uncertainty there as well. One, the NFL and other sports leagues are already incredibly distorted markets, aided as they are by exceptions to anti-trade law and a general public (to say nothing of lawmakers and judges) who are fine giving the NFL monopoly power over professional football (which may be a perfectly rational and fine choice). Second, and more importantly, the lifespan of an NFL player is blisteringly short. I've heard a variety of estimates, but most often the estimate is put at around 2-3 years; never have I heard even five seasons.
This skews the incentives. Were Sam Bradford to have taken the $80,000 a year job, he would be giving up a lot now, but it's much more likely that his other career would last far longer, and as a result his income would be much smoother. And of course the number one pick is not really the appropriate metric; it's not evident that, from a financial perspective at least, making around $400,000 a year for three or even four years and then having no career prospects at all is better than starting in a $70,000/year job with growth potential and stability. (I know in this economy nothing is certain.)
Two points flow from this. The first is that it cannot be accurate to compare an NFL player's salary with the salary of Joe Schmo, office manager. Their income stream is more like that of an artist, or even an entrepreneur — variable with their success, with great opportunity to be set for life, with also a high likelihood of bust. As I've pointed out, 78% of NFL players file for bankruptcy. As this NY Times article points out, it's not easy to manage your money if it comes in irregular, large chunks, followed by long dry-spells.
And second, if you make your money at once you end up paying more in taxes than someone who earned the same total amount, in smoother fashion, over the same period. To use an example of an entrepreneur, imagine the there are only two tax rates: 40% if you make over $200,000 and 20% if you make over $45,000. If two neighbors both make $500,000 over five years, with neighbor 1 making $100,000 every year while neighbor 2 making $250,000 twice and zero in the other years, neighbor 1 will have paid $100,000 in taxes while neighbor 2 will have paid $200,000.
Is any of this determinative of whether or not football players make too much? No, but I think it all adds a significant layer of uncertainty to their ability to make a living that, particularly when coupled with the well documented health issues that come from playing football, including brain injuries, make high incomes somewhat more understandable, even if they could be characterized as raw economic rents.
Like last year, I have written a variety of pieces for the wonderful Maple Street Press, which specializes in team-centric preview guides — i.e. preview guides wherein all 128 pages are about your team, rather than having to share your single-page half-and-half with Akron (sorry Akron) or Michigan State (sorry Michigan State). This season, I wrote seven articles for six different publications, and had the collateral benefit of working with some very talented (and extremely patient) publishers and editors. So, obviously, if you like any of these teams, I recommend shelling out the 12 duckets to buy a copy; they can be ordered through Maple Street's website (see the links below) or found in stores on a regional basis.
And if you're curious what they look like in print, here is a link to an article I did last season for the Florida guide — I think it came out somewhat better than Tebow's actual season did. In any event, here are the choices. Without further delay, and in no particular order, are the articles:
– We Are Penn State, edited by Mike Hubbell of BlackShoeDiaries. My article is titled "Inside the Spread HD," but as I explain, that term is really a misnomer or at least merely serves cosmetic purposes, as at best Penn State's offense is formed from coach Galen Hall's two-tight, power approach (similar to the Indianapolis Colts's core offense), with Jay Paterno's "be multiple" impulses laid on top. At worst, however, this balancing act can lead the Nittany Lions away from having any particular identity. I discuss this balancing act, along with some of the key concepts, along with how PSU may feature Evan Royster this year.
– Cornhusker Kickoff 2010, edited by Jon Johnston of cornnation.com. My two articles, "Shawn Watson and K.I.S.S." and "Offensive Tendencies," discuss the man entrusted with steering the other half of Nebraska's team, the offense, self-proclaimed west coast guru and Mike White disciple, Shawn Watson. Obviously, with how dominant the defense was Nebraska was a few more yards and a few more points away from an even better season, and the Cornhuskers showed flashes worthy of hope in their bowl game against Arizona. I discuss Watson's evolutions and the team's options for 2009 in each.
– Yea Alabama, edited by Todd Jones and Joel Gamble of rollbamaroll.com. My article, "The McElwain Way," sheds some insight into the sarcastic and funny Jim McElwain, whose one-back power offense has in many ways been both the perfect complement to Saban's defense and the difference between Alabama's 7-6 record in Saban's first year (without McElwain) and 26-2 record since. I focus particularly on 'Bama's run game.
– Here Comes the Irish, edited by Pat Misch of The Blue-Gray Sky. My article, "A Passing Primer," is a nuts and bolts introduction to Brian Kelly's offense and what he might do at Notre Dame. I've touched on similar topics previously, but I'd never had the opportunity to pull it all together as I did there. I look at Kelly's run game, passing concepts (including how he handles pattern read coverages), favorite quirks, and his general approach to offense and especially quarterbacks.
– Hail to the Victors, edited by Brian Cook of mgoblog.com. The buzz coming out of spring camp at Michigan is that the Wolverines are moving to a 3-3-5 (or 3-5-3) look on defense, harkening back to Rich Rodriguez's preferred defense at West Virginia. In "Back in Time," I take a look at the origins of the 3-3-5, some of its progenitors (like Charlie Strong, formerly of Florida and now of Louisville, and the quixotic Joe Lee Dunn), how it is similar to and differs from traditional 4-3 and 3-4 defenses, and the ways it has evolved for modern football.
– Packers Annual 2010, edited by Brian Carriveau of the Journal-Sentinel Online and Cheeseheadtv.com. Yes, an NFL article! In "Unleashing Aaron Rodgers," I discuss Packers head coach Mike McCarthy and offensive coordinator Joe Philbin's "pro-spread" attack, how they handle the blitz by deploying more receivers and giving Rodgers more options, and how Rodgers cycles through his progressions on such staple concepts as "smash" and "levels."
So, feel free to run out and buy a bunch for your friends (note that I don't get paid based on how many you buy, and I do really think these are quality products). I would say that they'd make great stocking stuffers, but even I must admit that they will be a bit out of date by then.
Of course, I'm pretty precise when it comes to referring to something as the wildcat, but these clips of Sweetness playing shotgun QB for the Bears are, well, sweet:
From the New Orleans Times-Picuyane, via reader Justin. Sean Payton discusses several plays, including four verticals and stick.
Below is a diagram of the second play the Saints run in the video above. The second video in the series (which is the more informative of the two videos) can be found after the jump.
Q&A with Baylor head coach Art Briles, from FoxSports Southwest. (H/t Spreadoffense.com.)
Your spread offense really served as a catalyst in the state of Texas. After they saw the success you were having in the 1990s, dozens of schools changed their offenses and patterned them after yours. Where did you come up with your version of the spread? Did you have any influences when you designed your offense?
I appreciate you saying that, because honestly we were some of the first people to start throwing it around and spreading it out. I just kind of came about it through trial and error. I had my first head coaching job back in 1984 in Hamlin, Texas. That first year, we made it to the quarter-finals and got beat on penetration. So the next year, I understood that if we didn't spread the field and give our guys space to create plays in, somebody with better talent was going to shut us down and beat us. We started it in 1985, spreading in the ball around. We were in the shotgun, throwing it and running the zone read. It just kind of evolved through the years. We fluctuated with our personnel and with our philosophy, and with the defenses we were facing. I think it's fun; I like how everything has evolved in the game of football. I'm excited about what the future holds, because it's been a fun journey watching the way everything has transpired on both sides of the ball.
How much has your particular brand of the spread changed since you started running it?
Quite a bit. To some extent, we're a little more screen-oriented now than we were then. We had more of a vertical passing game then, because we got more single [coverage] matchups than you get now. I've always liked a real mobile quarterback. We've always had our best teams that way. Even having Kevin Kolb at Houston. He's fixing to be a star quarterback for the Eagles. You know, Kevin's a mobile guy. He's one of only three quarterbacks in college football history to throw for 400 yards and rush for 100 yards in a game. He had that capability; we just didn't pull it out of them that much because he's such a precise passer and we had other weapons around him. I like a guy who's mobile. I like a guy who can move around and make things happen, and create plays for other people. Fortunately, we have a guy like that in Robert at Baylor.
The spread really took off in the college game early in the 2000s. Offenses enjoyed a lot of success for several seasons, but last year, it seemed like defenses found a way to at least slow down the spread. Do you think the spread is here to stay in college football, or will it be like the wishbone or West Coast offenses that were en vogue for a while before fading away?
I definitely think it will continue to change, but I also think it's here to stay. I think the game has become a lot faster from the standpoint of putting people in space and letting them make plays. I don't think that we'll consistently see people lining up with a full house backfield, handing the ball to a guy who's running downfield. I think that part of the game is definitely valuable. You can have some advantages doing that today, because people don't recruit defensively to stop teams that pound the ball at you. But I don't think the spread offenses are going anywhere for a while.
You left Stephenville to become running backs coach at Texas Tech. That was the same year Mike Leach arrived in Lubbock. What was it like working with Mike? How similar is your offensive philosophy to his?
We were on the ground floor of the Texas Tech process. Spike [Dykes] had done a great job there for many years. I think at that time, they had been to a bowl nine of the past ten years. That situation has continued there since then. The thing about Leach and his philosophy – like with Hal Mumme at Kentucky, Al Wesland at Valdosta – is it's set, it's patternized, and you do what you do. The thing I was impressed about was they had what they had, they believed in it, and it was successful for them.
Brian Cook thinks so, but I'm not so sure. The idea that the spread, or, even just Gus Malzahn's offense in particular, "is a modern-day version of the single wing" is overdone. (To be fair, the Judy Battista's NY Times piece focuses on the wildcat, which I do think has a great deal in common with the single-wing.)
But Cook's point is broader and, I think, flawed. He gives several reasons why Malzahn's O in particular is like the single-wing, saying the single-wing
- incorporates many possible different ball carriers that head in different directions.
- uses misdirection as the primary way to acquire big plays. It's not "keeping the defense honest" so you can run your bread and butter without the opponent cheating, it's an attempt make the defense confused on every play.
- often features a primary ball handler who spins wildly to set up playfakes heading in opposite directions.
- depends on sowing confusion and can be vulnerable to teams that are well-drilled at stopping it.
These reasons assuredly apply to Malzahn's offense, but do they apply to the single-wing? Not really, or at least they aren't its foundation. The single wing was primarily (though not always, of course) about using overwhelming force to one side of a formation. So the spread's major similarity to the single-wing is mostly relegated to the shotgun and the fact that the quarterback is not an irrelevant handoff man, but instead has an active role in the run game. (H/t for the image FootballBabble.)
And the rest of Brian's points don't seem to apply. The single-wing was not a big play offense (have you seen the scores from back then?), instead relying on steady gains from its power runs. Indeed, most plays resembled rugby scrums, which made sense given football's original roots. Some single-wing teams used a lot of ballcarriers — and I guess everything uses "a lot of ballcarriers" if the comparison is a Woody/Bo I-formation offense where one guy gets 35 carries a game — but it wasn't a major feature. Playfaking was important but no more so than in other offenses, and certainly not as much as it is to offenses like the Wing-T. (And I don't know about the single-wing being known for fakes involving "spinning wildly," though various forms of the "spin" offense were invented decades later). And, although defensive discipline is helpful against any offense, the cornerstone of the single wing was the "student body right" type play behind the unbalanced line and blocking backs to the "single wing" side. There's no misdirection to be snuffed out by a disciplined defense there; it's called bowl your opponent over to get four yards. Below is video of an older school single-wing; I think it's evident that it's a little more straightforward than Brian's four points would imply.
The upshot is that yes, the single-wing was a shotgun formation, yes it used some misdirection (all offenses do), and yes it's old, but that doesn't make it the sole inspiration for today's spread or even Malzahn's offense. Modern fans, including Brian, have understandably mapped their understanding of the offenses they see on a weekly basis onto the past and see a direct correlation, but it's not quite that straightforward. Certainly, the coaches who developed today's modern offenses, like Rodriguez and Malzahn, did not spend their time meticulously studying the single-wing tapes of yesteryear. Instead, if there are similarities it's because those coaches stumbled onto the same ideas through trial and error.
So where did the spread come from? The basic answer is simple, though to catalogue all the influences would go on for days: the spread is a synthesis of most of the great ideas that came before it. It owes some principles to the single-wing, but it also owes its debts to the double-wing, a few Wing-T principles, the veer option squads, the run and shoot, and modern pro-style passing attacks. This makes sense, given that defenses, once they have countered something, do not forget, though at the same time an offense's effectiveness is often contingent on how experienced the opponent's coaches and players are to facing it. The "spread," which is an overbroad term anyway, puts a new twist on a lot of what came before it.
But to say it is confined to being the "modern day version" of any one of those past offenses ignores too much football history to be a plausible interpretation. Like much football commentary, the analysis isn't wrong, it's just incomplete.
Good links all related to football strategy, though we begin with a video of Gus Malzahn's Auburn O, via Offensive Musings:
– Defending the bunch. If a defense plays a lot of man coverage, you can bet that the offense (if they have any sense, anyway) will quickly start using "bunch" or "compressed" formations. Anyone who has ever played backyard football can give the answer: it's much easier to get open if your defender can get "screened" by congestion of some sort — either your teammate running a "legal screen" (versus, ahem, an illegal pick which no one ever does, right?) or even some cluster of receivers and defenders. Defenses, not to outdone by such offensive wizardry, have responses, summed up well in posts by RUNCODHIT and Blitzology.
Unsurprisingly, discipline is a key factor. Blitzology covers some mechanics, while RUNCODHIT adds some background:
[Y]ou can't run press-man on both WRs[;] alignment won't allow you to. Also, to run straight man against reduced splits is suicide. The offense will pick you off and open-up a WR to the inside or outside. Because of this threat, defenses have to stay in pure-zone or combo-man coverage.
versus the run 3-way [coverage] places the [strong safety] in a position to force the ball inside. The corner is assigned play-pass responsibility, and the [free-safety] is a flat-foot read player . . . . Against the pass the . . . [strong safety] has the first man to the flat. If no one attacks it, he sinks under the first WR outside. The corner[back] has the first deep route outside — he is going to [back]pedal on the pass and read the WRs. The FS has the first man deep inside. His technique is essentially the same as the corners'. If a deep receiver does not show in or out, then they play a "zone it" technique and help their partner.
Bonus: Check out RUNCODHIT on "Pattern Reading vs. Zone Dropping" and Blitzology's series on attacking BOB or Big on Big pass protection. (I've described the principles of this protection here.) Series parts one, two, three, and BOB vs. the 3-4 defense.
– Think you have what it takes to be an NFL guy? Check out this Slate article on the work ethic of NFL coaches. The answer — it's about managing people, as much as it is about strategizing and ideas:
What exactly does a head coach do for 23 hours every day? . . . Imagine telling George Halas that he should have worked 20-hour days. He would have laughed you out of his office, then gone back to inventing the T-formation. No matter how many variations on the spread offense you come up with, it's still the spread offense, not Fermat's Last Theorem. . . . The guy with the biggest whistle has a fleet of coordinators and position coaches that handle all the grunt work, from conditioning to game-planning to skill-training. . . . Instead, the coach functions as a sort of CEO, coordinating large-scale strategic planning while ensuring all members of his organization perform competently. Viewed through that lens, this endemic insomnia shouldn't come as a surprise. After all, CEOs fetishize waking up early just as much as football coaches. . . .
– Screenery strategery. If you're going to spread the ball out or throw the ball at all, day one is usually spent working on the basics of passing: timing, quarterback drops, rhythm, catching, and the basic routes. Day two, however, goes to screens, those little gadget plays that, particularly at the lower levels, make being a pass first team really worth it. These impressive little suckers manage a quite impressive trifecta: (1) they are easy to complete (and maybe should be thought of as runs rather than passes), which can build your quarterback's confidence and allow you to get the ball to your playmakers in space; (2) they are often your best weapon against aggressive, blitzing defenses, which can otherwise overwhelm young players just learning how to throw the ball efficiently; and (3) unlike a lot of passing-related concepts, these make heavy use of misdirection, that great equalizer between teams of greater and lesser talent.
In that vein, two great primers out there are Mike Emendorfer's UW-Platteville screen presentation and this recent post from Brophy's blog.
– Football and math, oh my. Good post on the basics of "football math" — i.e. who and where do you attack. Here's a test: Where would you attack in these two situations?
I haven't yet posted anything on conference realignment yet, which is something I want to correct — though I admit I'm kind of glad I didn't write a premature excursus on Texas's and Oklahoma State's strategic impact on the Pac-10 or how Will Muschamp would defend Oregon's spread or how Ohio State would deal with Missouri's. But the obvious (and most useful) angle to the realignment discussion treats the debate as about business decisions by very profitable entities, with the most coveted being the most profitable entities (Notre Dame and Texas, really). This angle has been much considered.
Yet the more interesting and less focused upon question is to think about what you would have done if you were one of these little guys to be left behind? Arguably nobody handled the realignment issue better — at least once factoring in the relative strength of their bargaining position — than Baylor, whose strong lobbying efforts (coupled with a lucrative TV deal for Texas) helped save the Big 12.
Thus, when I caught an item on the WSJ's Deal Journal blog I was intrigued. The piece was "Football M&A: How One Small School Navigated Conference Realignment, about how Rice dealt with the demise of the old SWC and found itself in the WAC. It's worth quoting most of it in full:
How do [small schools] play their M&A strategy when terms are being dictated by the bigger, richer, more winning schools?
Deal Journal tracked down Bobby May, the now-retired athletic director at Rice University who shepherded the Owls through the death of the Southwest Conference in the early to mid-90s to the Western Athletic Conference and, finally, to their current home in the Conference USA.
Then, as now, the culprit behind conference realignment was money, though in the SWC's case it was how difficult and costly it was getting for its private schools (Baylor, Rice, SMU and TCU) to compete with schools subsidized by the state (Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Oklahoma), among other factors.
May is a Rice man through and through. He was a student from 1961-65, came back in 1967 as an assistant track coach, ascended through the athletic department and serving as AD from 1989 to 2006. Here is an edited transcript of our conversation:
Deal Journal: When you were caught up in this, was Rice, as one of the smaller schools in the SWC, trying to be proactive, or did you have to wait to see how the chips fall and then make your move?


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Deviant Art
code blueI tell you there will be someone else,
sometime, in the unseen future, and
you say you don't want anyone but me,
so sweet my love,
but you cannot follow me,
not this time.
I know you can't say goodbye
neither can I.
I knew waking up to your voice this morning
I wouldn't be seeing you again,
or the shining life you painted for me last time
I trembled on the edge, but
you gave me two months
of love.
TuesdayYou write the words so no one will understand, it isTuesday5 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
Tuesday again, always Tuesday, even when it
is Friday and the school across the street shrieks with excitement, the
walls have ears and you say it is Tuesday and carefully write a list
of what you have and have not allowed yourself, because
it is always Tuesday and the walls shake their heads,
and trace the lines of your notes, shorter every week, but not
every day because it is not Tuesday and you can write what you
need, the walls do not have ears.
You do not use the phone because the words have slipped from your grasp,
the subtle difference between careful and controlled, the words on the paper
say I had an English degree as if it has fallen between the crack in the night
between yesterday and today. You say, fine, a word that says exactly what
you did not want it to, but you fold your shirt against your body, soft as tissue
until only your hands grasp themselves, twisted like birds,
the living and the deadI lie on the floor, I cannot bearthe living and the dead6 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
the bed, the sheets, so sweet smelling
soft. I lie on the floor like it is the deck of a ship
before a storm.
the things I used to tell you
no one knows,
the nightmares followed us home, but I like
to think you have learned the secret -
where to begin the forgetting. I
put you in a room like a moth
in a jar, listen for your last breath, open
the door, but you are gone
the scent of burning
hair, the animal fear, the way your
knees brush each other like leaves,
I lie on the floor, my hipbone falling
between beams, dirty laundry under my cheek,
I fall asleep watching the rise and fall
of my bed.
the love affairlife slides under the door andthe love affair6 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
I think about you not knowing how to love
and touching a person's sleeping eyelids
to change a dream, to lie here with you
under a silent oak tree, the sunlight
has begun to breathe and I am digging you a grave
for your past and your future, I am
holding you here, the trunk of my car open to let the sweet
sound of a song rise into the
air, it is rushing by
too swiftly
and I have premonitions or
I just got lucky or everything
means something
nothing vanishes without a trace
I hold despair in the palm of my hand and cannot dance
without spilling it onto the floor, it
seeps into the carpet
but you are holding out a towel and the sound
of your laughter is like paper birds settling on the branches of
the tree growing from my ribs
a memoryI remembered the afternoon I called you,a memory4 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
curled on my bed with someone's good book
in my palm, nestled softly in the waning light
and under my gently roaming fingers
the baby moved not to my hand-touch,
but inside, an insistent flutter,
not like the swiftly beating heart
on the doctor's monitor, not like the slow
appearance of a plus-sign on a drugstore test.
I called you, my gently rolling daughter's
mother's mother. I called you like the woman
standing at my back while I held the kite string
on a pushy spring day, the diagonal shape so
far above us I could only feel the jerk of the
cord around my fingers, holding us to earth.
that's what I'm waiting forI still want to kiss you.that's what I'm waiting for6 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
I am building a bridge to a road
I do not wish to travel, but the bricks keep
falling into place.
I want to reinvent the language
of a kiss, to use new words, to know
every breath I breathe out, you breathe in, and
the strings that cascade out of my body like a spiderweb,
they sometimes lead to you, so
I travel backwards, looking for the turnoff, looking for
the person who stands behind me, not holding a knife, but
reaching out for your hand.
like a wound scabbed over, but still
screaming, a measure of unspoken words,
just now waking up.
when does a man fail
at life?
when you touch one string does the world
shudder and fling you into the
shining place
in a hotel room with the sun thinking about rising,
reruns and the hum of a shower, already cold,
thinking about the distance between here and
there, is it the sharp sound of stepping on a fallen branch, the
soft sound of sheets sliding to the floor,
do you think about dressing or
step naked into the
to u
the letter that never arrivedas if grief had never hollowed out my heart,the letter that never arrived2 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
caverns echoing with the memory of a laugh,
as if despair had never stolen my voice
until love whispered in my ear
and I knew what mattered,
to speak
of knowing: there are things
you will decide to protect yourself from,
you must never relive,
and some you must live
and live again,
no matter the cost
call and answerMy need is huge and grasping,call and answer3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
the wolf curled inside her locked cage
of ribs,
she had lain silent for years,
but your voice called to her,
a hunter's moon rising rich and secret.
There are shadows even in the dark.
She lifts her muzzle, the liquid rise and fall of her
singing patiently, endlessly.
I run my clever fingers through her thick pelt, her animal self
who does not understand shame or
that you cannot simply take
what isn't yours.
the noteI should like to hear that song again, throughthe note6 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
speakers shuddering with cold, to
have it mean something,
or hold my hands to my face, to not have
forgotten the way your neck smells beneath your hair.
I would like tomorrow to be today, to have learned to
play better on the guitar, to have told you the
secret of life, which I knew once
before I woke up
I dreamed that you were taken from me and sometimes
my dreams come true, but never
this one.
I have changed everything, but nothing has changed, the
seasons swing precariously, the voices outside the window,
the bats clinging to the sill, where we once walked home
and all the things I have learned that I can never speak of,
I haven't the time to tell you the most important thing of all,
just this.
A Love Poem For LegsYou are an Amazon,A Love Poem For Legs3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
you have a walk, and meeting you
for a moment I am 15 again and trying
to decide
do I want you or just want to be you.
You wait for coffee like a queen,
so I sneak a thought of your long legs
around my waist, yes,
there's a momentary clench but you are
coming towards me, so I put that away
for when I know you
the artistthere is a colour in my brain, I write the word colour,the artist5 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
I ramble through a box of crayons from years ago, I touch robin's eggs, I
see a colour and name it peace or maybe war
I drop my pen and come up with a paintbrush, I think desire and watch the
wings of a pelican change colour in the sky, disappear, flash back, think of
a day, black and white,
I read about a flower that is yellow, but I
don't want yellow, I want the sun against my skin, the colour that
an exhale makes in the summer when everyone tells me you cannot see your
in the summer, there is a trembling in my yellow, there is a quickness
in my breath and you cannot paint quickness, you cannot write
viragowhen i forget how anger tastes,virago7 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
i place a penny under my tongue,
caress my wounded car,
listen -
when we fought you screamed:
stop crying, stop crying!
Im the one who should be crying.
but you never did.
she has your eyes.
it might be the colour of love,
those eyes,
if you could have killed me,
you wouldnt have.
(i would),
but you did not dream of flights of stairs,
me, eyes closed, listing at the top.
you do not rage, no,
too much energy, embarrassing how
the neighbours are whispering behind their
hands that i have enough anger for both
of us.
its true
i smoked three cigarettes in the truck waiting for you.
to not meet their roving eyes, i chain-
smoked, lighting one cigarette from the other,
until my bones trembled
next time,
leave the keys
daughtersmy 5 year old daughter only wants to rundaughters2 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
through the park, loping beside our wolf-puppy,
both lean & fierce, joyful
as she tosses her hair back
& suddenly I see my body
in hers, tireless & certain,
despite my pounding heart
& damaged limbs, I run&run&
then she gives for a moment,
tumbled full-length in the grass,
feeding the puppy from her cupped hands,
& demanding, scratch my back too!
then down her sides & over the ripples
of her ribcage, her leaping heart
& tummy, still baby-soft,
until the shadows reach us & I
must give her back, inch by inch,
a long, twirling hug
my mother will echo with sad arms,
murmuring, you look really good,
here, now, when we stand alone,
which never means,
you lost weight or
that's a pretty dress
only us, watching her
& suddenly glad
we're alive
things you don't tell in group therapyI open an artery in my arm.things you don't tell in group therapy4 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
Not where you would expect, but where the nurses,
tired and annoyed, finally find a place close to the surface of my arm,
where my heart beats, lightly, on the outside of the bend in my elbow.
I do not know what to expect or even that it will work, but
I am scrambling to grab a t-shirt as blood swells like a
rising tide, flooding the white pillowcases crimson,
slipping down the inside of my thighs like
I have only just become
a woman.
I dive into my body.
If I can see it, I will understand. I will know
some secret of breaking and healing.
My arm heats like a furnace and I start to get shocks
to my shoulder and fingertips -
a living body looks nothing like a corpse and yet
they place a dead body in front of us,
white gloves and a clipboard and I spend the hour gently
tracing the winding roads of the brain.
Jasonon a TuesdayJason6 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
where night bled into morning
you stretched
your arms above me and nearly caught your branches in the
flame of the candle. slender limbs against my
naked skin,
i do not dream of you as a man, but as you are,
leaves growing dark, dark,
dark, from my chest to meet the sky,
sometimes our loving is fierce and sometimes
we are able to breach the
spaces between floor and
the ceiling has opened
to the light
white trash weekendscasual sex on Fridays,white trash weekends3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
slipping out the front while he fumbles
the lock at the back,
I wasn't meant to be your love,
one and only, white dreams,
yes I'm barefoot at the mini-mart again,
no, I didn't wear a bra and those shorts you thought
were only for you, but it was so hot out and
he let me lean on his SUV, my toes play with
his rims, the music pounding around us,
yeah, I bought a beer and sat on the porch and
didn't answer when he called,
but baby, for 5 minutes
he loved me more than you have in a
they'll get it right this timeImpossible demands, like holdthey'll get it right this time3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
still and stop throwing up and
don't cry.
It can't be a hallucination when
everyone's screaming,
the pretty doctor's hair in her eyes, the nurses'
finger-bruises laddering my skin,
the wet pillow.
How sometimes the only power
is crying, noisy-soft, the waves of blood
gurgling sickly from lips
until someone decides, stop,
The army retreats and a quiet woman
spends the next hour wiping blood
off my shaking body.
The next day in the ambulance
to the next hospital, bigger and better,
dried red flakes sift from my hair
and I am afraid.
unchartedif I had all the time in the world Iuncharted6 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
would pretend you are a new world,
map your skin stretched over bones,
fit your secrets deep beneath my mattress,
I would become a native, pluck
the ripe fruit from the trees,
tour your thighs like the rising of a white wave
on a white shore that
always returns to sea
the love poemI wanted to write a poem to you,the love poem6 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
about the sound of your voice, of the
silences between,
about the catch between one word
and the next
I wanted to write a poem about the way my hands were so cold
the cigarette burned down and I never felt it, the angry words
were my bones,
I wanted to tell you we are always silenced
like a first kiss, the tentative touch,
the disappointment
of the fumbling hands, the dark
in between
and how if you lived a little closer I would
kiss you properly, the sweetness of words
on lips
the morning newspapers
the cigarette lost in the
ashtray, sending smoke signals up
to guide us home
blood poisoningOnce you've had a baby you don't care aboutblood poisoning4 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
people contemplating your cervix. It's waiting
for the call. Or the letter because your new phone
doesn't have voicemail. Mostly normal.
It's as good as these things get.
There was a shift change when I had my daughter
so the night nurses leaned on the wall in the back of
the cheerful room and the day nurses touched my arm,
the inside of my knee, everyone laughing and cheering
and yelling PUSH
and then there was you.
And a lot of blood, I could feel it rushing away from
my body, my host of hosts, my living flesh, the
quick stitches, the pressure worse than the contractions,
my long, graceful daughter calling for my arms,
my open body, undone.
I thought about love and you and how I've relearned to
type quickly because I finally hit the jackpot, I finally
dove deep enough into my body to find the vein
and my heart beating like a tiny bird pulses blood
and you only think about repercussions later.
Buy a tattoo, a coyote wrapped around your ankle
Exhume and InhaleI have tasted God, he tasted of sweet wineExhume and Inhale4 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
and sandalwood, the deep forest you lay down
in the moss and twigs, scattered like finger-bones,
your spine ripped out, curved like a bow.
I couldn't find your heart, trembling
against the opened cage of your ribs,
under the gently speaking rustle,
leaves unfurling, the dance of sunlight
slinking between your vertebrae:
piccolo skims and birchskin shaves.
I fled. Your right shoulder blade beckoned still,
unfolding like the slow feathers of a wing,
your wrist flung out, palm
up, gasped my name,
but I could not stay, only
strained your skin with oleander tea,
drifted, drifted with the tumbleweed,
the blind breath of the wind,
and I had tasted God, birdsong on my tongue,
soaring, sweeping, sweet and free.
SchizophreniaI heard the meaning in that song,Schizophrenia5 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
played the record backwards,
hid the poem I wrote, instead
I write Post-It notes:
1. Songs Have No Meaning
I capitalize a lot to keep on track,
hang number one over my desk,
2. Balance Your Checkbook: You Probably Overdrafted
Next to the keyboard in case I care to look,
3. I love you
On my headboard, I like to wake up
to that one, on a need-to-know basis,
4. Emergency Phone Numbers
By the quiet phone I leave a list of people I might
or might not call.
5. Death Is Not A New Beginning
Extreme Behaviour 101you dream of a tree on your back, a crowExtreme Behaviour 1014 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
on your shoulder, whispering to you,
feathers floating free,
the wind covering your body like a
wild animal, you have no more rules
for this body.
you write a love poem
for the uninterested--
tuck it under the mattress for a
younger generation to find
or the man who comes to take your bed
after you move away into the hills,
never to be seen again.
there comes a time for phone calls to home
for phone service to extend into the universe
where you've hidden among the exploded supernovas
in an attempt to fix things that you didn't break.
mother's spasming hands that drop dishes to the cold tile,
reading has become a special occasion
only to be done while researching something unnamed.
you cannot name the forces at work
behind your eyes or learn how your bones hold together
without reading it over & over, reciting it in your head
until all you can think of is how pointless it is to be held together
when it's so easy to be taken apart.
adam's rib so e
a second opinionSuddenlya second opinion5 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
I begin to feel, I write poems
in the first person, I am
inhabiting my body,
I want to weep with joy,
am overcome -
reread books, listen to music that
rocks gently against my heart.
My heart, the timer that ticks away in the slow-waking
hours, time folding into a crease at 3 A.M.
dry-swallowing the pills and studying the currents of the
ceiling before sleep comes like a wave
to claim the body.
heartbeatsmy fingerprints are on the inside of your thighs,heartbeats6 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
Acqua di Gio and sweat,
a love letter under your shoulder blade,
you are reading a poem
like Anne on a boat somewhere, holding
Maxine's hands, saying the wrong words over
and over again
shivering in a bath,
I cannot die because
I once told you forever
even when my fever goes up and
my heart has forgotten how to beat and I think
about that, how a body turns itself inside out and
it all comes down to a broken heart.
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A's Holliday still playing waiting game
Matt Holliday(notes) is too smart to tell the truth.
He gets the game. All of Scott Boras' clients do. Holliday is a free agent in 3½ months. He already has lost tens of millions from his asking price because of a poor season – "just a terrible struggle," Holliday admits. And now, faced with a question to which there's no right answer publicly – does he have a preference for how the Oakland Athletics handle the next two weeks, keeping him or trading him? – Holliday suppresses any invective that may be tempted to escape, lest he get some sort of reputation and fritter away millions more.
"I do," Holliday said, "but I'm not going to say."
Holliday wants to. Any athlete stuck on a last-place team with playoff contenders still coveting him in spite of his problems would. And that message is: S.O.S. Rescue me, oh, good team, from the clutches of .431 baseball and spirit me away from the purgatory that is the Oakland Coliseum.
He doesn't. Just isn't Holliday's thing. He's too polite, too professional, too well-trained. He leaves those things to inference, because he has plenty more to worry about.
Like his swing. It's the reason Holliday continues to wear an A's uniform. Had he performed to his usual All-Star level, teams would gladly give up two prospects and perhaps more for the privilege of renting Holliday. Instead, he's stuck with a mediocre batting average (.276), a piddling home run tally (nine) and a slugging percentage 112 points below his career average (.539 to .427).
Holliday considers such numbers and cringes. He sees his low line-drive rate and high infield-pop-up issues and wonders what happened. This is not him. He is the 6-foot-4, 235-pound monster who hit 95 home runs the last three seasons. Forty-two of them went to the opposite field. Holliday hasn't hit one oppo this year, not even a fence kisser, and every game he goes without a hit or an RBI or a homer, this new emotion – "anxiety," he calls it – bites like a piranha.
"To a degree, we all deal with that," said Holliday, 29. "I've felt it a lot. It's like, man, I've pulled all my tricks. I've done everything I know to do. It's hard."
It all came so easy. Holliday blossomed with the Colorado Rockies and led them to a World Series, his chin-first dive into a playoff spot still the greatest moment in the team's history. The Rockies traded Holliday to Oakland this offseason after he turned down a four-year, $72 million deal, and he readied himself by tweaking his swing on the advice of an old friend.
Holliday started working with Mark McGwire, baseball's J.D. Salinger, during the 2006 season. They have formed a bond based around the efficacy of Holliday's swing, and McGwire this offseason suggested he try striding with his left leg instead of the trademark leg kick Holliday employs.
At first, Holliday blanched. McGwire, after all, was the one who originally suggested the leg kick. McGwire figured Holliday had matured past it, and after an offseason of training and a spring of adjusting to the stride, he unveiled it in major league games, with a new team, to little success.
"When you actually have to compete and mechanics have to be second nature … when you're thinking about them, your brain can't do all that at one time," Holliday said. "As much failure as we deal with, that's something we struggle with. If you don't get a hit one game, you're looking to fix it. I had started thinking too much. It was a vicious cycle. When you get stuck in it, it's hard to get out."
Holliday's felt like quicksand.
"When you get in a game against pitchers throwing in the mid-90s with great breaking balls, you need a timing mechanism," he said. "Some guys, the stride works. For me, it didn't. So I had to go back to the kick. Then there's an adjustment period. And it's hard in the major leagues to get hits when you're fiddling with your mechanics.
"I had a lot of trouble with my timing. I thought I could work through it. Once you do something and it becomes part of your swing and who you are, it's hard to go away from it."
So for the past two months, Holliday has relearned his swing through long hours of video analysis. He watched his old swing, then his new one, old, then new. He spotted the necessary adjustments. He tried not to think. He often failed at that, too.
All of this leaves Holliday in a fragile place: experiencing failure after having never done so in the major leagues. Holliday empathizes better ("I understand why other guys have these anxiety issues," he said) and frets at asking McGwire for more help ("I don't want him to feel like he has to hold my hand," he said). Holliday scoffs at skeptics ("People are saying, 'Oh, it was Coors Field,' and that's just not true," he said) and thinks he found his swing ("Finally," he said).
On the latter part especially, Holliday may be correct. In the first game out of the All-Star break, he yanked a line-drive home run to center field. It's the sort of display that if repeated over the next two weeks could get Holliday traded, even if he is owed $4.5 million for the remainder of the season.
"I don't know," A's manager Bob Geren said. "That's not my job. He's doing well. He's playing for me every day. Nothing to say on that. It's one of those … I can't give you the answer."
Geren hemmed and hawed because not even he knows how Oakland general manager Billy Beane and assistant GM David Forst will handle Holliday. If the A's keep him, they would likely offer arbitration to reap the two compensatory draft picks when he signs elsewhere. And so comes the starting price for a trade: at least two high-quality prospects.
Whether a team antes up for a sub-.800 OPS player depends on the market Beane and Forst can scare up. Though Oakland's performance has lagged significantly in recent years, the A's brain trust majors in extracting value – even in this buyers' time, where San Francisco, Atlanta and St. Louis, among others, could use a left fielder.
Holliday's availability depends, of course, on his rebirth. Is he a Coors Field mirage or a legitimate bopper? Can the new version of his old swing match the old version's might? And, biggest of all, will he or won't he get traded?
Fourteen days to keep biting that tongue.


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Social Networking
Social networking -- the good, the bad and the ugly. Here we discuss how Linux users use social networks, which ones they use or don't use and why.
Linux Journal can currently be found on Twitter, Flickr and Facebook.
linux security
i am undertaking an assesment on levels of security on linux based system so mostly is in the local security so any idea of that please
There is only one social networking site I've found useful, and that is LinkedIn. But then it isn't really about "social" networking but cultivating professional contacts. Facebook seems like a clossal waste of time.
Social networking for Linux
Reading the comments above I need to add that I found a site through digg and was approached by the creators that I feel takes all the social networking sites and combines them, the site is based on Drupal and as we are aware drupal is an open source community based cms.
I would suggest having a look at the http://linuxarmy.com as it seems to have all the news feeds from companies discussions and modules to build and grow the site.
I hope this answers your questions. secondly the site seems to be solely based on a linux user being a noob or professional.
LinkedIn - agreed
This is the only networking site I personally use also.
We're experimenting putting Linux Journal out there on some of the more popular social media sites and I have to say, in the process I've only learned how much I really don't enjoy them. Time will tell...
Carlie Fairchild is the publisher of Linux Journal.
No thank you
I can think of several other ways to waste my time without jumping on the social network bandwagon. I have looked at a couple of these sites and found nothing compelling to make join them let alone live my sad existence through them. Perhaps it is because I am socially inadequate or just because I see the pointless marketing angle and refuse to join in, but I will not use any social network site.
I don't need them
Social networking isn't a bad idea, but the current players (for example, "Linux Journal can currently be found on Twitter, Flickr and Facebook") exist for the purpose of capturing eyeballs and delivering ads to them. This leads to concepts like "you must register to post comments." Sorry, not for me.
I think these types of sites have SOME value if you're stuck inside on rainy days and have absolutely, positively NOTHING else to do, or if you're just curious (as I was just now), or can't bear face to face socialization for whatever reason, but, well, I'm not terribly enamored with them, nor can I say I frequent any of them much at all! I've got too much going on in my life to care about them. Now youtube! Well we're talkin' whole 'nother animal!
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NewCardio, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: NWCI) a cardiac diagnostic and services company, today announced Dorin Panescu, PhD, has agreed to join NewCardio as its Chief Technical Officer and Vice-President of Research and Development, effective October 20. Dr. Panescu joins NewCardio from St. Jude Medical, Inc., (NYSE: STJ) a $4.1 billion medical technology and services company, where he most recently served as Director, Technology Development, for the Company's Cardiac Rhythm Management Division. In this role, he managed broad functional teams tasked with the development of heart failure trending and wireless remote monitoring features for implantable cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers. Dr. Panescu is credited with 130 issued U.S. patents and 70 published or pending U.S. patent applications covering a wide spectrum of technologies for medical devices, specifically related to devices and methods for medical imaging, diagnosis and therapies, as well as cardiac mapping and ablation.
Before joining St. Jude Medical, Inc. Dr. Panescu served as Vice President of Research and Development, Operations and Intellectual Property for Refractec, Inc., where he directed R&D and Operations for the development of keratoplasty radiofrequency ablation equipment and set the company's IP strategy. Refractec, Inc. was the first company to get PMA approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for the surgical treatment of presbyopia. Previously, he served as Senior Director of Systems Development for Boston Scientific Corporation, directing new product development for the Electrophysiology Division. Boston Scientific, Electrophysiology, is the world market leader in radiofrequency cardiac ablation systems.
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The Tribute salutes filmmaking as a collaborative effort, led by the director who guides the cast and crew in creating a film that moves you.
The actresses were the subject of much scrutiny and criticism, mostly around their physical appearance. The people doing the bashing? Women. All women
Modern masculinity is measured not by a stoicism that makes us resemble an inanimate object (a rock, a pillar) but by a capacity for feeling, a capacity to be moved -- even moved to tears. It may once have been true that, as the Cure sang, "Boys don't cry." But not anymore. Today, real men cry.
At the very least, you can make a movie next year about white women and gender inequality and have the Oscars rally around you. It is never the same for gay people and people of color, as evidenced by the lack of color in this year's Oscar movies.
Hollywood awarded its greatest honors Feb. 22, doling out prizes for excellence in movies at the 87th Academy Awards. It was also a big night for Illinois -- at least three of the award winners come from the Prairie State.
The oversight is irrelevant, as Nightcrawler garnered Rene Russo unprecedented critical praise for her work, and renewed attention from millions of fanboys. And this coming from an actress whose appeared in the MCU, Marvel Cinematic Universe.
It didn't hurt Sunday night's ratings to have only one angry white woman of a certain age refuse to turn that dial (so to speak). We won't get Hollywood's attention -- or any other institution of power -- until all of us are angry.
As we end Black History Month, let's celebrate our accomplishments and add to that list an 18-year-old girl who had the confidence and courage to address insensitive, stereotypical remark of ignorance head on.
There are moments when the stars align and magic happens. Moments when everything simply "clicks" and an unforgettable red carpet gown is born. So what separates these one-of-a-kind fashions from the rest?
In the midst of these projected possibilities, one thing is certain: the power of Hip Hop is immense and unwavering. But, how the art form is used from this point forward will determine the type of power we truly want to have.
I was very contemplative on my recent flight home from Colorado, traveling back from a week with my Mom as we try to manage some challenges that often go along with a vibrant life that is in it's eighth decade.
Here are a few observations on current shifts in our cultural zeitgeist -- and how they found a reflection in some of Sunday night's best picture contenders at the Oscars.
Lately I've found myself wanting more from film-- the new, the feminine, the "other." In an ideal world, this year's Oscars would help catapult radical change in the industry.
We finally finally finally had a number of acceptance speeches that tackled cultural issues that we are facing. Finally the acceptance speeches reflected us and what we are all going through, collectively.
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Baja Amigos Completes Another Season
By Baja Dan on April 9, 2015
April 9, 2015 – We returned to the US yesterday crossing at Tecate Baja California our usual location. We arrived at the border at 9:16 am and entered the US in approximately 45 minutes, not bad at all. On the American side we all met at the pulloff stop, gathered the radios, evaluations, returned information to the gang and said our goodbyes. What a great time we had on Baja for our 24th tour (29th for Baja Amigos)....read more
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Last Day On Baja Sur
By Baja Dan on April 3, 2015
April 3, 2015 – We leave this morning on our northward journey with one more night in Baja Californian Sur. We will be heading for Guerrero Negro and Mario's RV Park and the forecast is for cooler temperatures, we will see....read more
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Leaving Los Cabos – Heading North Slowly
By Baja Dan on March 27, 2015
March 27, 2015 – It has been a busy few days since my last blog and the weather has not changed on Baja Sur particularly in the southern loop. Hot, Sunny and Hot! Mid 30s C or low 90s F every day....read more
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Leaving Loreto Sunshine Abounds
By Baja Dan on March 19, 2015
March 19, 2015 –Only a few days ago we were in Guerrero Negro and the gang was setting off to see the whales and hopefully touch some. Well they had a show for sure, I believe everyone touched whale and many were spit on as well. The Grey whales were really putting on a show, […]...read more
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Baja Blast Furnace
By Baja Dan on March 15, 2015
March 15, 2015 – Hard to believe it is already Day 5 and this morning the gang goes out to watch the whales. Yesterday on arrival the wind was blowing and it was hot, mid 30's C (over 90 F). It never did get that cool overnight in Catavina, perhaps 20 C or 70 F. The drive was uneventful, a little windy at times but we took it easy, not a lot of regular Mexican traffic, we speculate the higher price of fuel is keeping many off the road. After arrival and set up in Guerrero Negro at Malarrimos we headed for Tony's Tacos, we have been looking forward to them since we our last tour....read more
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March 2015 Baja Amigos Tour Starts
By Baja Dan on March 12, 2015
March 12, 2015 – Well here we are heading south on Baja one more time to finish our 2014-2015 Baja season. This is a very special tour for us as we have Lisa's Mom, Sylvia and our friends from Surrey, Mark & Kathy with us. We met them at the Oak Creek RV Resort in El Cajon, as well as folks from Yakima, Washington who are also joining us. Our return north for this March tour has brought some terrific weather, reaching well into the 30's C (80's F)....read more
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Day 29 – We have returned to the U.S.
By Baja Dan on March 7, 2015
March 8, 2015 – Well we crossed back into the U.S. on a busy Saturday this morning at Tecate with more adventure in store for us that include a police escort on the Mexican side and the Sherriff telling us to move along at our regular meeting spot on the American side. But we made it safe and sound with lots of driving excitement on our last day on Hwy 3....read more
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Lazy Hazy Day In Mulege
By Baja Dan on March 1, 2015
March 1, 2015 – Well here we are in Mulege, our 2nd day, it has become overcast and cooled off (25C), the forecast is for showers tomorrow. Today some folks went to mass in town, I took others into town for a little shopping and banking, still others went for lunch. Lisa and I went for breakfast at the Hotel Serenidad with Ron & Andrea, it was tasty indeed and reasonably priced....read more
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Still in Baja Sur
By Baja Dan on February 27, 2015
February 27, 2015 – Only a few days ago we were at the Villa Serena RV Park having our Annual Baja Amigos Breakfast Meeting with Dom & Diane from Alberta and Mike & Kelly from Kansas. Dom & Diane had arrived the afternoon before and Mike and Kelly were going to meet us at the Los Cerritos Surf Colony RV Park later in the day. The day started out warm and was only going to get warmer, fortunately we would be a little cooler on the Pacific and have access to a descent pool....read more
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Leaving Los Cabos
By Baja Dan on February 22, 2015
February 22, 2015 – It has been a few days since I last blogged from Ciudad Constitucion. The weather has really cooperated for sure, no more rain only sunny skies, hot days and warm tropical breezes. Our time on Playa Tecolote was definitely memorable and busier than we had seen for some time. When we arrived there was already 20 RVs spread across the beachfront so it was a bit more challenging getting the group parked as we wanted to respect the view and space others had prior to our arrival....read more
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Loreto-Thunder Downunder
By Baja Dan on February 16, 2015
February 16, 2015 – Today the sun is scheduled to reappear as we continue our southward journey to Ciudad Constitucion on our way to Cabo San Lucas. This is a very different start to our day yesterday, where the lightning and thunder, followed by lots of rain (buckets) awoke me at about 4am and continued for some time. It did clear up for our excursion to San Javier, the road was in ok shape except for dodging some rocks. We had a good look around and returned under mostly sunny and warm skies. Then after some errands in the early part of the afternoon the thunder and lightning started again and it poured. About an hour before our Baja Fiesta Dinner the precipitation stopped and before you knew it we were loading up the Van and Giggling Dolphin bound. We able to park at the gate to the restaurant, good thing the water was 6 inches deep on the street and went curb to curb, I had to exit thru the sliding side door myself. Dinner was good, Ubaldo always the gracious and attentive host and the musicians performed some new tunes thanks to Gus's requests, yet another Baja experience to remember....read more
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Ballenas Abound
By Baja Dan on February 11, 2015
February 10, 2015 – The couple of days have not been without adventure, even more than planned. We met Roland & Janice at the Calimax on Hwy 1 as planned on our way to Fidel's the gang was happy to welcome them back into the Caravan. Our drive on Hwy 1 seemed to have less traffic although those on the road seemed to take more risks than usual which prove for more than enough excitement at the front....read more
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Adios Enero – Hola Febrero
By Baja Dan on February 7, 2015
February 7, 2015 – We met the group at Potrero County Park as they arrived on Thursday under blue sunny skies, no wind and warm temperatures. Usually warm weather has arrived in southern California and will be with us our next two (2) Baja Amigos tours collect up and depart south to Mexico. Yesterday we hit almost 30C or 85F for a high, we had a bit of wind off and on form the south west, nothing that lasted long, really just breezes. We headed off to the border to process the Pre-Paid Tourist Cards provided by Discover Baja at 10:00 am, everything went smoothly as expected....read more
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Day 27 – Still on Baja
By Baja Dan on February 1, 2015
February 1, 2015 – Time flies when you are having fun, my last Blog was from La Paz and here we have just arrived at the Baja Fiesta Restaurant in San Vicente on Day 27. It was a long drive from Bahia de Los Angles but thankfully uneventful. The Gang is definitely looking forward to a good meal from Cecilia and we are confident her and the boys will deliver. As a bonus the Super Bowl is playing today....read more
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La Paz-Northbound
By Baja Dan on January 24, 2015
January 24, 2015 – Lots going on over the past few days since my last posting, weather has been darn hot, very windy, overcast and then cool as we have made our way from Los Cabos, Pescadero, Todos Santos to La Paz where we are currently....read more
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Blue Sky, Hot Days- Los Cabos
By Baja Dan on January 20, 2015
January 20, 2014 – Day 14 has ended in Cabo San Lucas so to recap the last few day we start on our 2nd day in Loreto. 9:00 AM we were off to San Javier, water still running across vados on many sections of road. Princess Line Cruise Ship arrived in port carrying 3000 passengers, […]...read more
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Loreto, BCS – Day 8
By Baja Dan on January 13, 2015
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January 13, 2015 – After leaving Playa Santispac on schedule and before you knew it we had arrived in Loreto without incident after one of my favourite drives from Bahia Concepcion to California's original capital. After we got settled we went on a short excursion around town, the bank and picked up a few groceries. Later some folks went out to dinner, Orlando's is one of our favourites. Tomorrow we are off for San Javier then our Fiesta Night Dinner at the Giggling Dolphin, this is always a hi-light if the tour....read more
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Day 1-The Heat Has Returned
By Baja Dan on January 7, 2015
January 7, 2015 – When we arrived in Potrero most of our group had already arrived, as had the warmer weather, always a good sign. We headed off to the border the next day at 10:00 am as we were not using pre-paid tourist visas and were not certain hw much time this would take. Happy to report this process only took us an additional 30 t0 40 minutes. Interesting enough the price has increased to 332 pesos or $29 USD, when you do the math you see that paying in US funds definately cost more, at 14 pesos per 1 USD (now 14.64) the fee should be under $24 USD, not $29 USD....read more
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Prospero Ano Neuvo: 2015 Has Arrived – Heading Back To Baja
By Baja Dan on January 1, 2015
January 1, 2015 – Well on Sunday, December we returned to Baja as I enrolled in a 5 day Spanish immersion course, unfortunately the weather changed, colder with rain in the forecast. Our first was to return to Sordo Mudo and meet with Ed Everret again, we had purchased some powdered drink mixes to donate to the school and then we were off to lunch to Ed's favourite local restaurant, Vinos Fuentes in the Valle de Guadalupe, just a short drive from Sordo Mudo. This place was a remarkable find, food was wonderful, prices reasonable, we will be returning!...read more
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Baja Amigos 2014 Tour Finishes
By Baja Dan on December 10, 2014
December 10, 2014 – Well we returned to the US today after a modified 38 Day Tour, the folks we had with us were not big fans of the beach. We still maintained a reasonable pace with some quality R & R time. We took only one couple back as 3 couples dropped off in La Paz returning next month, Ferne took the Ferry to Mazatlan as planned and two couples departed from La Paz early (3rd day). Andrea & Marianne were anxious to get in some skiing, Randy & Liz were keen to get repairs made on their Class "A" which had been plagued with a number of issues, both on the road to Baja and in Mexico....read more
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La Paz -We are here
By Baja Dan on December 1, 2014
December 1, 2014 – Well we arrived today in La Paz and have set up at Campestra Maranatha, a campground just north of La Paz in Centenario. Our visit to Todos Santos earlier today is always a favourite as many always look forward to the Hotel California experience. They have a wonderful Cultural Centre, Mission, Saints Alley and so many interesting shops....read more
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Lands' End in site-We have arrived at Cabo San Lucas
By Baja Dan on November 26, 2014
November 26, 2014 – Leaving Loreto we drove to Ciudad Constitucion and encountered road construction as you reach the summit and start the long decent into Ciudad Insuregentis, slow but necessary, only a small section of construction remains on the road west to town now. We stopped for fuel and our shop at Super Ley, always great produce and a great bargain on Wine (3 for 2)....read more
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Lovely Loreto, BCS
By Baja Dan on November 20, 2014
November 20, 2014 – Well it has been a few days since my last blog, a combination of busy and no access to internet. We promise Fun & Adventure and there has been plenty to go around. After leaving Guerrero Negro we headed south to San Ignacio, the section to Vizcaino is particularly narrow and we did a meet a Wide Load....read more
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We Are On Mex 1 With The 47th Baja 1000 (Mil)!
By Baja Dan on November 13, 2014
November 13, 2014 – Our drive from Villarino's to Fidel's on Day 3 to the beach was uneventful other than lots of traffic and a few Motorcyclists testing the margins of safety. Shortly after climbing the hill southbound from the Santo Tomas Valley we encountered new widened road, almost complete in most sections all the way to Colonet (as I recall), certainly past the Military Checkpoint adjacent to the LA Cetto Vineyards. After a couple of body breaks we had our last stop for fuel just before we set up at our destination, Fidel's....read more
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Back on Baja
By Baja Dan on November 9, 2014
November 9, 2014 – Day 2 is coming to a close here at Villarino's Campground and RV Park in Punta Banda. Today we are to Ensenada, with our first stop at Art Gallery (Closed) and Cultural Centre (Open). The old casino was full of tourists, both those off the cruise ship and locals attending a fundraiser....read more
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Sue Monk Kidd's The Mermaid Chair is the soulful tale of Jessie Sullivan, a middle-aged woman whose stifled dreams and desires take shape during an extended stay on Egret Island, where she is caring for her troubled mother, Nelle. Like Kidd's stunning debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees, her highly anticipated follow up evokes the same magical sense of whimsy and poignancy.
While Kidd places an obvious importance on the role of mysticism and legend in this tale, including the mysterious mermaid's chair at the center of the island's history, the relationships between characters is what gives this novel its true weight. Once she returns to her childhood home, Jessie is forced to confront not only her relationship with her estranged mother, but her other emotional ties as well. After decades of marriage to Hugh, her practical yet conventional husband, Jessie starts to question whether she is craving an independence she never had the chance to experience. After she meets Brother Thomas, a handsome monk who has yet to take his final vows, Jessie is forced to decide whether passion can coexist with comfort, or if the two are mutually exclusive. As her soul begins to reawaken, Jessie must also confront the circumstances of her father's death, a tragedy that continues to haunt Jessie and Nelle over thirty years later.
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Starred Review. Jessie Sullivan, the protagonist of this rewarding second novel by the author of the bestselling Secret Life of Bees, is awakened by a shrilling phone late one night to horrifying news: her mother, who has never recovered from her husband Joe's death 33 years earlier, has chopped off her own finger with a cleaver. Frantic with worry, and apprehensive at the thought of returning to the small island where she grew up in the shadow of her beloved father's death and her mother's fanatical Catholicism, 42-year-old Jessie gets on the next plane, leaving behind her psychiatrist husband, Hugh, and college-age daughter, Dee. On tiny Egret Island, off the coast of South Carolina, Jessie tries to care for her mother, Nelle, who is not particularly eager to be taken care of. Jessie gets help from Nelle's best friends, feisty shopkeeper Kat and Hepzibah, a dignified chronicler of slave history. To complicate matters, Jessie finds herself strangely relieved to be free of a husband she loves—and wildly attracted to Brother Thomas, né Whit O'Conner, a junior monk at the island's secluded Benedictine monastery. Confusing as the present may be, the past is rearing its head, and Jessie, who has never understood why her mother is still distraught by Joe's death, begins to suspect that she's keeping a terrible secret. Writing from the perspective of conflicted, discontented Jessie, Kidd achieves a bold intensity and complexity that wasn't possible in The Secret Life of Bees, narrated by teenage Lily. Jessie's efforts to cope with marital stagnation; Whit's crisis of faith; and Nelle's tormented reckoning with the past will resonate with many readers. This emotionally rich novel, full of sultry, magical descriptions of life in the South, is sure to be another hit for Kidd.
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Figure 7.
[Ca2+]e oscillations in wild type and regA- cell suspensions. (a) Regular [Ca2+]e oscillations were recorded in wild type cell suspensions (see also [2]). (b) Similar to light scattering oscillations the pattern of [Ca2+]e oscillations in regA- was irregular. One out of 5 independent experiments is shown.
Lusche et al. BMC Cell Biology 2005 6:12 doi:10.1186/1471-2121-6-12